Saturday, October 5, 2013

John
McAfee is a computer security expert, founder of the company that
manufactures and services McAfee anti-virus products. He gave this
interview about Obamacare state exchanges and pointed out some
disturbing cyber-security issues.

“It’s
seriously bad. Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the
program but in simply implementing the web aspect of it. I mean, for
example, anybody
can put up a web page and claim to be a broker for this system.
There is no central place where I can go and say, ‘OK, here are all
the legitimate brokers, the examiners for all of the states and pick
and choose one.’”

“Any
hacker can put a website up, make it look extremely competitive, and
because of the nature of the system — and this is healthcare, after
all — they can ask you the most intimate
questions, and you’re freely going to answer them:
What’s my Social Security number? My birth date? What are my health
issues?”

Unfortunately,
according to McAfee, there’s not a quick fix — and as long as it
set up this way, it could be a playground for computer hackers.

“Here’s
the problem: It’s not something software can solve. I mean, what
idiot put this system out there and did not create a central
depository? There should
be one website, run by the government, you go to that website and
then you can click on all of the agencies.

This
is insane. So, I will predict that the loss of income for the
millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities — I
mean, you can imagine some retired lady in Utah, who has $75,000
dollars in the bank, saving her whole life, having
it wiped out in one day because she ‘signed up for ObamaCare.’

And
believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This
is a hacker’s wet dream.
I mean I cannot believe that they did this.”